Overcoming barriers to exercise among parents: a social cognitive theory perspective
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Social cognitive theory: an agentic perspective.
The capacity to exercise control over the nature and quality of one's life is the essence of humanness. Human agency is characterized by a number of core features that operate through phenomenal and functional consciousness. These include the temporal extension of agency through intentionality and forethought, self-regulation by self-reactive influence, and self-reflectiveness about one's capab...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Behavioral Medicine
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0160-7715,1573-3521
DOI: 10.1007/s10865-016-9744-8